Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Letterbrickaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Letterbrickaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobermurry
- Coordinates
- 53.59668, -9.69360
- SMR number
- GA012-003----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the side of a trackway in the field NE of the bridge at Leenaun village. This well, correctly Tobar Muire, is now blocked up and totally obscured by growth. According to local tradition, it was frequented on 15th August, 'Pattern Fair' day, until 'travelling people washed their clothes in it and it seized up'. Now obliterated by new road (pers. comm. T. Robinson).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy well1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassified1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.